Question: Madrid-El Goloso train

[Anniesantiago]

I've got 10 days until I leave for Madrid.
I'm trying to cut the first few days of the walk into shorter sections.

I see there is a Circanius from Madrid to El Goloso.
It runs every 30 minutes and takes 22 minutes to arrive.
The cost is only 2 euros.

Has anyone done this?
Does the Camino go directly through El Goloso and will I have any problems picking it up there?

Thanks!
I'm getting excited.

 

[alansykes]

El Goloso is very close to the CdM path. I took the metro out to Montecarmelo and the arrows (and open countryside) are there for you. The cercanías goes on from El Goloso to Tres Cantos, which is just off the camino, and Colmenar Viejo, which is on it. Fuencarral, just before Montecarmelo, is on both the metro and the cercanías, and the camino.

Have a buen camino - and take plenty of water up from Cercedilla: I luckily happened on a spring (the fuente de San Pedro) in the middle of a field about 10km short of Segovia, but it would be easy to miss.

 

[Pelegrin]

I walked from Montecamerlo to Tres Cantos last Sunday. Yes El Goloso is on the Camino.
The oaks and the field in general were spectacular after a rainy winter and still little snow on the Sierra in the background.
I enjoyed a lot my walk and maybe next week I'm walking Tres Cantos - Manzanares with some friends (one of them knows a good restaurant there !?).